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Memorials may be made to the Sisters of Loretto for our mission, c/o Loretto Motherhouse, 515 Nerinx Road, Nerinx, KY 40049 or as an online gift at www.lorettocommunity.org.
Memorials may be made to the Sisters of Loretto for our mission, c/o Loretto Motherhouse, 515 Nerinx Road, Nerinx, KY 40049 or as an online gift at www.lorettocommunity.org.
Nerinx - Sister Theresa Louise Wiseman SL, died March 27, 2021, at Loretto Motherhouse Infirmary in Nerinx, KY, just after her 100th birthday and just short of her 80th anniversary as a Sister of ...
Memorials may be made to the Sisters of Loretto for our mission, c/o Loretto Motherhouse, 515 Nerinx Road, Nerinx, KY 40049 or as an online gift at www.lorettocommunity.org.
In January, Lindsey Faust and her partner visited the Loretto Motherhouse in Nerinx, Kentucky, for a mini vacation. Faust was a former volunteer with Loretto Volunteers and shared a rapport with ...
Loretto Srs. Dorothy Scheopner and Mary Ellen McElroy visit the Loretto Heritage Center in Nerinx, Ky., during its official dedication April 24. (Donna Mattingly, SL) Theirs was a meeting of the ...
Sister Mary Swain looks out over the 825 acres from the bell tower of the 1860s convent that now houses the Loretto Community in Nerinx, Ky. The community of of vowed sisters and co members have ...
Ever since the days of pioneer homesteaders, the Sisters of Loretto have lived amid the rolling hills of central Kentucky. They taught in rural schools, still operate a corn and soybean farm and ...
In the rolling hills of Kentucky, the Sisters of Loretto are leading a grassroots movement against the proposed Bluegrass Pipeline, a 1,100-mile project that would connect Pennsylvania, Ohio, and ...
Two monastic orders in rural Kentucky, the Sisters of Loretto and Our Lady of Gethsemani, have made news recently for refusing to permit a gas company to install a pipeline across their property.
A 200-year-old order of Catholic nuns, the Sisters of Loretto, battle the construction of a pipeline that would transport toxic gases through their Kentucky homeland.
When a nun died on a boat in 1852, a deputy sheriff in Independence turned back a party of the Sisters of Loretto from bringing her body through town for burial.